You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

We must have infinite faith in each other.

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.